Tetris Blast

As in the original Tetris, the goal is to clear away blocks before the stack gets too high. Unlike the original game, Tetris Blast allows the player to slide their blocks even after they have landed. Some blocks contain bombs. When a line is cleared a bomb in that row explodes.

There are three modes of play in Tetris Blast: a training mode where the player can choose ten different speeds the blocks can drop from. As the blocks fall from the top of the screen, the player can stack and destroy blocks. There is no end game to this mode. In Contest mode, the player stacks blocks as they fall in a partially pre-filled chute.

The initial gameplay of Tetris Blast is rooted in a game called Bombliss which was designed by Akihiko Miura. Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov visited Japan in the Spring of 1989 and met with Tsunekazu Ishihara, who showed him the concept. Ishihara would be the producer for a game titled Tetris 2 + Bombliss. The Japanese developers spent the next two and a half years developing the game. On December 13, 1991, Bullet-Proof Software released Tetris 2 + Bombliss for the Famicom in Japan.

Tetris Blast was developed by Bullet-Proof Software.

Reviewing Super Bombliss, Famitsu magazine in Japan had two of its four reviewers lament that it lacked the puzzle mode and two reviewers saying that the training and contest modes were "more of the same" from the Bombliss series. One reviewer found it less exciting than the Super Famicom game of the same title while another said the fight mode was "surprisingly good."

A review in Game Informer described the game as "Easily one of the more entertaining Game Boy puzzle games to come down the pipeline in a while." Nintendo Power complimented the game as being very fun and addictive with four out of five of its editors of the magazine having it as their "Editors Pick" of the month.